{"id":26849,"date":"2024-11-11T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T17:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/?p=26849"},"modified":"2024-11-11T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T17:39:11","slug":"st-peter-news-november-11-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/st-peter-news-november-11-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Peter News November 11, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
\nNinth Sunday of Luke<\/h2>\n

Gregory the wonderworker, bishop of Neo-Caesarea<\/h4>\n

Gennadios and Maximos, patriarchs of Constantinople; Nikon the wonderworker, disciple of Sergios of Radonezh; Hilda, abbess of Whitby<\/h4>\n

Gregory the wonderworker, bishop of Neo-Caesarea<\/h4>\n
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Saint Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of Neocaesarea, was born in the city of Neocaesarea (northern Asia Minor) into a prominent pagan family (between 210 – 215), and his original name was Theodore.<\/p>\n

After his elementary education, Saint Gregory and his brother Gregory, or Athenodoros (Athen\u00f3doros)1 (according to some hagiological sources) they went to Beirut to study law. The great thinkers of antiquity were not able to quench his thirst for knowledge, however. Truth was revealed to him only in the Holy Gospel, and the young man became a Christian.<\/p>\n

In order to continue his studies, Saint Gregory went to Alexandria, known at that time as a center for pagan and Christian learning. Eager to acquire knowledge, Gregory went to the Alexandrian Catechetical School, where the presbyter Origen taught. Origen was a famous teacher, possessing a great strength of mind and profound knowledge. Saint Gregory became a pupil of Origen. Afterward, the Saint wrote of his mentor: \u201cThis man received from God a sublime gift, to be an interpreter of the Word of God for people, to apprehend the Word of God, as God Himself did use it, and to explain it to people, insofar as they could understand it.\u201d Saint Gregory studied for eight years with Origen, who baptized him.<\/p>\n

Saint Gregory’s ascetical life, his continence, purity, and lack of covetousness aroused the envy of his conceited and sin-loving peers, pagans that they were, and they decided to slander Saint Gregory. Once, when he was conversing with philosophers and teachers in the city square, a notorious harlot came up to him and demanded payment for a sin he had supposedly committed with her. At first Saint Gregory gently remonstrated with her, saying that perhaps she had mistaken him for someone else. But the profligate woman would not be silenced. Then he asked a friend to give her the money. Just as the woman took the unjustified payment, she fell to the ground in a demonic fit, and the fraud was revealed. Saint Gregory prayed over her, and the demon was expelled. This was the first of his miracles.<\/p>\n

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Read the entire history on the: Orthodox Church in America<\/a> website.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Services and Events This Week<\/h2>\n

The Nativity Fast Begins November 15 through December 24<\/em><\/p>\n